University of British Columbia
October 3, 2024
Protein function is closely related to its structure.
So, knowing structure helps scientists design new medicines and understand diseases.
However . . .
Figuring out a protein’s structure is extremely hard.
It’s like solving 3D puzzle with thousands of pieces, yet without knowing what the final picture looks like.
Usually done by long time and expensive experiments.
Fig. 3: Basic workflow of Alphafold.
Alphafold can predict the potential structure from an amino acid sequence, super fast with fairly high accuracy.